mediateadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈmiːdɪət/, U.S.

/ˈmidiət/

Forms: late Middle English 1600s mediat, late Middle English–1500s medyate, late Middle English– mediate; Scottish pre-1700 mediat, pre-1700 1900s– mediate.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mediatus.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin mediatus (late 4th cent.), past participle of mediare mediate v. Compare Anglo-Norman mediat (14th cent.) and Middle French, French médiat (1478).In phrase Lordis mediates and immediates (see quot. 1454 at sense 2b) after post-classical Latin domini mediati et immediati (from 1279 in British sources) or Anglo-Norman seigneurs mediatz & immediatz (14th cent.).

a. Intermediate; intervening or interposed in position, rank, quality, time, or order of succession. In later use frequently with between.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [adjective]

middlea1200

mean1340

mediate?1440

intercedent1578

interjacent1594

intermedial1599

intermiddle1613

intervenient1626

intervalling1632

intermediate1646

intervening1646

mediatory1650

intercurrent1656

intermedious1678

intermediant1716

intercepting1826

mediant1853

intermediary1875

interferent1876

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > middle > [adjective]

middleeOE

midmosteOE

mid1273

mean1340

middlemosta1400

mediate?1440

moyen1481

median1592

intermedial1599

intermediate1648

mede1706

intermediary1788

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. 647 (MED) In April figtreen inoculate; May best be ther as drie londis be, And ek in Iuyl ther lond is mediate.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 179 The membres inferialle supporte and do seruyce, the meane other membres mediate [of the body] receyve and refunde.

1547 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 78 The mediat air that is to succeid to the persoun that happynnis to deceis.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. viii. Ded. 29 I may wish you and yours less mediate trouble then he had in the course of his Life.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Suff. 59 After many mediate preferments..at last he became Arch-bishop of Canterbury.

1707 M. Prior Charity 49 But soon the mediate clouds shall be dispell'd.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1839) IV. 28 The understanding is in all respects a medial and mediate faculty, and has therefore two extremities or poles, the sensual..and the intellectual.

1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 169 The Marsh-eagles hold a sort of mediate station between the Ernes, the Ospreys, and the Buzzards.

1857–8 E. H. Sears Athanasia iii. ii. 262 There are three conditions after death, heaven and hell, and a state mediate between them.

1924 J. Riviere et al. tr. S. Freud Coll. Papers II. xxi. 250 The essay..describes the various allegiances the ego owes, its mediate position between the outer world and the id, and its struggles to serve all its masters at one and the same time.

1969 Amer. Lit. 41 286 Thoreau's search for a ‘middle way’ (a mediate way) between spirit and sense.

1987 19th-cent. Lit. 42 50 Wilfred [in Scott's Ivanhoe] does not simply assume a mediate position between Norman and Saxon cultures: he attempts to translate Saxon culture into Norman.

†b. Serving as a means to an end. Also: conducive, serviceable. Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [adjective] > instrumental

instrumentala1398

mediate?1504

organic1509

ministerial?1544

instrumentaryc1595

organical1605

subservient1624

ministering1886

?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) ii. xii. 195 He exorted his disciples..to take the crosse as the moost medyate meane to folowe hym.

1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. 634 The..supposition of a mediate and an ultimate religion.

1845 B. Thorpe tr. J. M. Lappenberg Hist. Eng. Introd. 53 A temple of Diana was mediate to the faith of so many people.

†c. That is in mid-course. (In quot. 1852 used as n.) Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.

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1852 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 474 Death divine alone can perfect both, The mediate and initiate.

2. Acting or related through an intermediate person or thing. Opposed to immediate.

a. Dependent on or involving an intermediate person, thing, or action.

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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [adjective] > acting as intermediate agent

meana1382

mediatec1449

moyen1470

mediatory1578

intermedial1649

intervenient1651

mediative1813

intermediary1818

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [adjective] > acting as intermediate agent > involving intermediate agency

mediatec1449

refracted1655

the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > [adjective] > involving mediation > through accompanying mark

mediate1897

mediation1953

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 521 In ij..maners God dooth in erthe: Oon is of immediat doing..whanne he bi him silf..dooth the deede..An other maner is of mediat doing, and that is whanne he not bi him silf oonli, but bi his assignees dooth it, as bi an aungel or bi the sunne.

1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie (1870) 23 By mediat moyens.

1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 36 Either by Mediate apparance, and reuelation of some vision; or by Imediate..illumination from God.

1642 H. Ainsworth Orthodox Found. Relig. 18 Mediate creation is the making of things of some former matter.

1646 P. Bulkley Gospel-covenant iii. 231 This mediate witnesse of the spirit..is not to be harkened unto, untill the immediate witnesse hath spoken.

1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. iii. 145 Perception is either immediate or mediate... Mediate, as when we perceive how they [sc. ideas] are related to each by comparing them both to a third.

1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ i. 3 Although..the agreement in these writings be mediate and secondary.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. xii. 264 All truth is either mediate,..derived from some other truth..or immediate and original.

1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation v. 224 The principle of mediate election is not commonly practised in this country.

1897 C. H. Judd tr. W. M. Wundt Outl. Psychol. iii. 239 ‘Mediate recognition’..consists in the recognition of an object, not through its own attributes, but through some accompanying mark or other.

1958 B. Bernstein in Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 9 164 The role of gesture, facial expression, bodily movement, in particular volume and tone of the speaking voice, will be termed ‘immediate’ or direct expression, whilst the words used will be termed ‘mediate’ or indirect expression.

1992 Mind 101 48 It might be wondered whether an alternative possibility in this case is to take the mediate partial notion of constituency as primitive, just as in the linear case.

b. Feudal Law. Of a feudal lord or of a tenant or vassal: related through a mesne lord or intermediary. Of a feudal relationship between lord and tenant: effected through an intermediary, as in mediate holding, mediate sovereignty, mediate tenure. Also figurative. Now historical.

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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [adjective] > direct or intermediate

mediate1454

immediate1543

1454 Rolls of Parl. V. 274/2 To paye..their rentes..to their Lordis mediates and immediates.

1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys ii. f. xxxix^v The kyng or eny other lord medyate or immedyate that [etc.].

1611 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdoms World (new ed.) 215 As touching his mediate [1630 immediate] Soueraignety.

1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 229 To be free from either a mediat, or immediat Tenure of him.

1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. v. 480 Those which had depended upon mediate lords became immediately connected with the empire.

1839 E. A. Poe Island of Fay in Wks. (1864) I. 361 [A planet] whose mediate sovereign is the sun.

1841 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. I. 173 The holding might also be mediate, that is, in the way of subinfeudation.

1843 T. Lewis Disc. True Idea of State 31 This ultimate or absolute sovereignty..in distinction from that acting or mediate sovereignty which is lodged with the present rulers.

1961 Speculum 36 263 Mediate lords might make their own summons to the general court the occasion for taxing their peasants.

†c. Preceding or following another person not directly but with a third party, generation, etc., coming in between. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 36 Stephen Langton, his [sc. Becket's] mediate successor, removed his body [etc.].

1718 in R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 370 Our sponsors are what I cannot away with, when parents, mediate or immediate, can be had.

†d. Law. Of evidence: directed to the establishment of an intermediate fact which is to serve as a ground of argument for the fact to be proved. Obsolete.

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1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 413/2 Mediate testimony, secondary evidence.

†3. Intercessory; intervening on behalf of another; acting as an agent for another. Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [adjective] > acting as intermediate agent > specifically of person

mediate1571–2

middling1631

intermediating1694

mesne1812

intermediate1855

a1456 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 24 (MED) O þou blest virgyne..Beo redy, aye bytwene god and man fful medyate, with þy prayer.

c1475 in F. J. Furnivall Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 140 Lord, to my mornyng be mediate.

1520 in W. Fraser Chiefs of Grant (1883) III. 65 Neuir ane of thame sal heir scayth..to vderis..bot thai sal raveil to vderis be thair selfis or be vder mediat personis.

1571–2 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 121 Na maner of persoun..sall pay or procure to be payit of thair awin substance or be mediat personis.

c1600 Hist. & Life James VI (1825) 186 When the Erle persavit himself to be so far disgracit, he travellit be mediat persons to mak satisfactioun.

1604 C. Edmondes Observ. Cæsars Comm. II. vii. viii. 63 These [sc. the Tribunes and Centurions] were mediate officers betweene the Generall and them [sc. the soldiers].

1655 in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. (1896) 30 18 The saids goods ar to be put in a mediate man's hands, who sall be answerable for them.

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 193 in Justice Vindicated It will not follow that the Bishop is the Kings mediate officer in all things and cases which relate to his Episcopal function and jurisdiction.

1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. i. 216 The mediat sellers of goods belonging to thieves or inobedient persons..are only punishable by banishment.

Compounds

mediate association n. Psychology indirect linking (of ideas, etc.) through unconscious or unnoticed intermediaries.

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1893 Mind 2 234 Wundt..accepted the term ‘mediate association’, and..was careful to point out that the so-called ‘unconscious’ ideas must always be ‘darkly conscious’; so that there is nothing in the process to separate it off from the ordinary types of association.

1912 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. Jan. 106 The cases of true mediate association found in these experiments.

1932 Jrnl. Philos. 29 216 A tree and a stream are often associated because they are parts of the same country-side. On this basis, all association by contiguity is mediate.]

mediate auscultation n. [after French auscultation médiate (R. T. H. Laennec De l'Auscultation Médiate (1819))] Medicine (now chiefly historical) auscultation performed with a stethoscope (as opposed to direct application of the physician's ear to the body).

ΚΠ

1821 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest ii. 287 Some of the indications afforded by the stethoscope, or mediate auscultation, are very easily acquired.

1893 S. J. Gee Auscult. & Percuss. (ed. 4) 92 Let mediate auscultation ever be considered the rule of practice.

1981 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 70 275 On the occasion of the bicentennial of the birth of the discoverer of mediate auscultation [sc. Laennec], we celebrate the life and work of one of the founders of modern medicine.

mediate cause n. a cause which operates not directly but by means of an intermediate agency; a cause which underlies or gives rise to other (more apparent) causes; cf. final cause at cause n. 4b.

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the world > existence and causation > causation > [adjective] > of or relating to types of cause > remote or not immediate

remote1563

mediate cause1626

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §400 The Immediate Cause of Death, is the Resolution or Extinguishment of the Spirits; And..the Destruction or Corruption of the Organs is but the Mediate Cause.

1748 D. Hume Philos. Ess. Human Understanding viii. 162 Nor is it possible to explain distinctly, how the Deity can be the mediate Cause of all the Actions of Men.

1835 R. Mant Brit. Months II. x. 395 He flew, To note, as rul'd by certain laws, But leave untold the mediate cause.

1992 Nous 26 475 When we perceive [the woman's act of kindness] we form an idea of the woman's kindness... This idea is the mediate cause of the moral sentiment.

mediate inference n. Logic inference based on more than one premise and therefore involving a middle term; an instance of this.

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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [noun] > inference

syllogism1588

subalternation1650

immediacya1834

immediate inference1843

mediate inference1849

1849 W. Thomson Outl. Laws of Thought (ed. 2) §51. 201 This is mediate inference.

1994 Philos. Perspectives 8 94 Every mediate inference pivots on a middle term of some kind, on the ability to recognize that two thought tokens share a content.

mediate knowledge n. Philosophy knowledge which is not the direct result of intuition or perception, but is obtained by means of inference or testimony.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > [noun] > obtained by inference

mid knowledge1640

mediate knowledgea1856

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [noun] > cognition > mediate cognition

mid knowledge1640

mediate knowledgea1856

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) I. xii. 218 What is called mediate knowledge.

1880 Mind 5 477 The properties of the molecule of water are even less intelligible to us than the properties of the living molecule. Of the former we possess only a mediate knowledge.

1986 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 46 580 Husserl's initial criticism of Humean skepticism is that it denies the noetic conditions for any theory by destroying the possibility of rational justification of mediate knowledge.

mediate percussion n. (occasionally also médiate percussion) [after French percussion médiate (P. A. Piorry De la Percussion Médiate (1828))] Medicine (now chiefly historical) percussion performed upon a solid object (originally a pleximeter, now usually a finger of the physician's other hand) placed against the body.

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1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. I. 219/1 Mediate percussion was only introduced into practice a few years since, by M. Piorry.

1843 T. Watson Lect. Physic II. xlvii. 10 In mediate percussion, some solid substance is placed upon the spot, the resonance of which is about to be explored, and the blow is made upon that substance, which is called a pleximeter.

1891 F. Taylor Man. Pract. Med. (ed. 2) 345 An advantage of using the finger as the pleximeter in mediate percussion, is that the vibrations of the chest can be felt at the same time that the sound is heard.

1979 Thorax 34 575/1 Pierre Adolphe Piorry.., whose controversial method of médiate percussion helped to sharpen the diagnostic skills of clinicians.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mediatev.

Brit.

/ˈmiːdɪeɪt/, U.S.

/ˈmidiˌeɪt/

Forms: 1500s mediat, 1500s– mediate, 1600s medyate, 1600s midiate.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin mediat-, mediare.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin mediat-, past participial stem (compare -ate suffix³) of mediare to be in the middle (Vetus Latina), to intercede, act as an intermediary (5th cent.), to halve (late 4th cent.) < classical Latin medius (see medium n.); in English use probably after mediation n. or mediator n. Compare Old French, Middle French medier to halve (13th cent.), to negotiate, act as intermediary (1471). Compare slightly earlier premediate v. With sense 5 compare earlier medie v. In sense 7 perhaps confused with mitigate v.

I. To act or bring about as an intermediary or mediator.

†a. transitive. To act as a mediator or intermediary with (a person), for the purpose of bringing about agreement or reconciliation; to intercede with. Obsolete.

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society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > bring to peace (strife or discord) [verb (transitive)] > mediate between

to go between ——lOE

mean1440

mediate1538

to build bridges1886

1538 Ld. Sandys Let. 16 Apr. in Lisle Papers (P.R.O.: SP 3/7/87) f. 116 I am desirid to mediat your lordshipp for a pore seruante of the kinges.

b. intransitive. Of a person or other agency: to act as a mediator or intermediary; to intercede or intervene. In later use chiefly with between.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > intercession or influence on someone's behalf > intercede or use influence on someone's behalf [verb (intransitive)]

ernde1225

bemean1464

intercess1556

intercession1593

intercessionate1593

intercede1606

interposea1616

mediate1616

superexpostulate1647

society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > become at peace with each other [verb (intransitive)] > mediate

stightlec1440

stickle1530

moderate1597

mediate1616

to step in1657

interpose1710

mediatize1885

1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Mediate, to deale betweene two, to make meanes of agreement, as an indifferent party to both.

1618 Earl of Suffolk in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 75 I must fly to you as to my pryncipall advocate to medyate to his Majestie for my coming to hys presence.

c1620 W. Camden Let. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 124 Yff you will mediate with my L. Burghley for the Loane of Chrisostomes Greeke Copie.

1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) i. ii. 58 Interpreters to mediate between the people and the Governour.

1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 24 Dec. (1948) II. 588 I have been..mediating between the Hamilton family & Ld Abercorn, to have them compound with him.

1837 T. B. Macaulay Ld. Bacon in Ess. (1899) 363 Bacon attempted to mediate between his friend [sc. the Earl of Essex] and the Queen.

1861 M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 412 In vain Cabinets endeavoured to mediate.

1892 M. Dods Gospel St. John II. xiv. 209 He [sc. the Holy Spirit] was to mediate and maintain communication between the absent Lord and themselves.

1962 L. Namier Crossroads of Power vii. 91 As for the King's advisers, he considered it their task to mediate between the King and Parliament.

1986 G. Josipovici Contre-Jour ii. 104 If you had existed you could have mediated between us.

a. transitive. To settle (a dispute) by mediation. Also: †to mitigate (an evil, suffering, etc.) as by mediation (obsolete).

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society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > bring to peace (strife or discord) [verb (transitive)] > settle (a dispute) > by mediation

mediatea1627

1568 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Dial Princes (rev. ed.) iv. 99 The miseries wee suffer..haue for the most part proceeded from our parents, and afterwards by our frends haue been mediated and redressed.

1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 27 Shoring our weaknesse, arming vs 'gainst fate, Guiding our path-lesse passage, brething life Into our dulnesse: midiating strife.

a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) ii. sig. D2^v No friends Could mediate their discords.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxii. 222 His companions indulged in a family conflict..which was only mediated, after much effort.

1968 P. Calvocoressi World Politics since 1945 iv. xiii. 256 Neutralism and non-alignment..entailed,..attempts to mediate and abate the dangerous quarrels of the great.

1991 Sporting News 12 Aug. 38/1 NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, a lawyer, tried to mediate the dispute.

†b. transitive. To intercede on behalf of (a cause or situation). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > intercession or influence on someone's behalf > intercede or use influence for [verb (transitive)]

entreata1425

mediate1578

to put ina1616

to speak up1705

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man sig. Aiiij^v Before you take any occasion to accuse me of temeritie, whiche crime I had worthely incurred if zeale should not mediate my cause.

a1625 J. Fletcher Pilgrim i. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ggggg/2 In your prayers..mediate my poor fortunes.

a1640 P. Massinger Bashful Lover iv. 58 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) Had you been Imploy'd to mediate your Fathers cause, My drum had been unbrac'd, my trumpet hung up.

c. transitive. To bring about or obtain (an agreement, treaty, etc.) by acting as mediator; to bring about by intercession.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > intercession or influence on someone's behalf > intercede or use influence for [verb (transitive)] > bring about by mediation

mean1440

mediatea1593

society > armed hostility > peace > pacification > peace treaty > [verb (transitive)] > effect by mediation

mediatea1593

society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > bring to peace (strife or discord) [verb (transitive)] > mediate between > effect by mediation

mediatea1593

a1593 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta (1633) v. iv Let me go to Turkey, In person there to mediate your peace.

1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 139 To mediate with the King a suspension of armes.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 79 Beseeching him to use his power, in mediating licence unto him, that he might come over for a short time to kisse the Queenes hand.

1718 Free-thinker No. 15. 1 The Friends on Both Sides thought, They might mediate a Peace with as much Ease as a Truce.

1754 D. Hume Hist. Eng. vi. 142 Anselm..mediated an accommodation between them.

1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella III. ii. xiii. 104 It is singular that the last act of his political life should have been to mediate a peace between the dominions of two monarchs, who had united to strip him of his own.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 552/1 The utmost the king could do was..to mediate a truce between his father-in-law and himself.

1989 Daily News (Nairobi) 3 Aug. 2/4 The two African leaders had told the SPLA they would try to mediate an end to Sudan's six-year-old civil war.

a. transitive. To be the intermediary or medium concerned in bringing about (a result) or conveying (a message, gift, etc.). In passive: to be communicated, imparted, or carried out mediately.

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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > find means to do something [verb (intransitive)] > act as intermediate means

to go betweenc1320

to come between ——?1492

intercede1578

factor1621

intermediate1624

trample1624

mediate1630

intervene1646

to come in between ——1676

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > render instrumental [verb (transitive)] > be intermediate means in

mean1440

mediate1630

refract1700

middleman1976

1630 H. Lord Display Two Forraigne Sects Introd. Who, to give this undertaking [sc. a book] the better promotion, interested himselfe in the worke, by mediating my acquaintance with the Bramanes.

1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxv. 227 An immediate working of God..without conuenient and ordinary instruments to mediate and effect this configuration.

1846 G. S. Faber Lett. Tractarian Secession Popery 224 Moses..mediated an inferior covenant between God and the Israelites.

1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics II. viii. vi. 58 Ten years after the first manifestation he believed himself the recipient of a second, not, like the former, mediated by anything external.

1861 G. J. Goschen Theory Foreign Exchanges 18 A country which, like England, mediates the transactions of many others.

1903 J. Conn Fulness of Time vi. 77 Everything we know of Him who is the Light of the World has been mediated to us through men.

1974 Author Summer 89/2 People wanted direct, authentic communication that had not been mediated by sub~editors or script writers. The tape recorder made this new authenticity possible.

1991 W. Cash Against Federal Europe 62 By this development, the representation and participation of the citizens was increasingly weakened and ‘mediated’.

b. transitive. Psychology. Of a mental process, cognitive activity, etc.: to react to a stimulus so as to bring about (a response). Usually in passive with by. Cf. mediation n. 2b.

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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > [verb] > act as mediator

mediate1899

1899 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 11 7 He found that recollection could be mediated..(1) through visual images, (a) successive in time and space, or (b) grouped..plus motor memory.

1942 Psychol. Rev. 49 522 Behavioral generalization in children was found to be mediated by verbal responses.

1957 B. F. Skinner in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 67/2 Instead of going to a drinking fountain, a thirsty man may simply ‘ask for a glass of water’... The consequences of such behavior are mediated by a train of events no less physical or inevitable than direct mechanical action.

1972 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 87 129 Of particular interest to the present investigators was the extraction of the dimensions actually used by individuals in mediating similarity.

1994 Daily Tel. 22 Dec. 16/6 Is the hypomania-related emotional Stroop effect mediated by anxiety?

c. transitive. Science. To be the medium for, or means of bringing about (a force, reaction, etc.). Frequently in passive with by.

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1959 T. Lidz in S. Arieti Amer. Handbk. Psychiatry I. xxxii. 650/1 The hypothalamus..is now understood to form a critical juncture in a circular feedback system that mediates and regulates neural impulses concerned with emotions and neuro-endocrine activity.

1970 E. Heftmann Steroid Biochem. vii. 64 Animal tissues contain hydroxylases that mediate the introduction of oxygen into specific positions of steroids to produce α- or β-oriented hydroxyl groups.

1984 J. F. Lamb et al. Essent. Physiol. (ed. 2) ix. 233 It is now known that transmission across a number of synapses is mediated electrically.

1985 Nature 3 Jan. 9 Dr Carlo Rubbia..had been in Stockholm to collect his Nobel prize for discovering the W^± and Z⁰ particles, which mediate the weak nuclear force.

1993 Mycol. Res. 97 157 A host-specific recognition mechanism, termed eclosion, mediates the early establishment of Hypoxylon fragiforme (Ascomycotina) in its hosts.

a. intransitive. To lie or occupy the space between (formerly also †betwixt) two things, times, etc.; to be transitional between. Now rare.

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the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > be interjacent [verb (intransitive)]

relate1490

intercede1578

interject1578

interpose1615

interval1630

interline1633

mediate1641

intervenec1709

intercalate1960

the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > condition of being mean or average > be the mean [verb (intransitive)]

mediate1641

1641 R. Carpenter Experience, Hist., & Divinitie v. xix. 322 There mediates no reall tie betwixt you and me, but the worne and old tie of old Acquaintance.

1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. iii. 21 By theire being crowded together, they exclude all other bodies that before did mediate betweene the litle partes of theire maine body.

1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 72 Betweene the temptation of the Divell and sin there ever mediates, or goes betweene, cogitation, or thought, in which the temptation properly and formally lyes.

1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) II. 388 No twilight in the gateway To mediate 'twixt the two.

1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. xviii. 398 To mediate between the old and the new..is the mission of institutions like ours.

1872 E. Tuckerman Genera Lichenum 11 Evernia vulpina must be admitted to mediate,..in an important detail of thalline structure, between the other northern species and Usnea.

1902 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. II. 344/1 The term probabilism is also used to describe the theory which mediates between a sceptical view regarding knowledge, and the needs of practical life.

b. intransitive. To function as an intermediary or link. Frequently with between.

ΚΠ

1927 J. Riviere tr. S. Freud Ego & Id v. 83 The ego tries to mediate between the world and the id, to make the id comply with the world's demands and, by means of muscular activity, to accommodate the world to the id's desires.

1968 M. Bunge in I. Lakatos & A. Musgrave Probl. Philos. Sci. 128 [A] theory that takes the risk of hypothesizing something mediating between inputs and outputs.

1979 H. Segal Klein 19 The ego..mediates between the id and reality.

1990 G. Snyder Pract. of Wild vi. 129 The web that holds it all together is the mycelia, the fungus-threads that mediate between root-tips of plants and chemistry of soil, bringing nutrients in.

1995 Computer May 85/2 Interface agents mediate between the user and task or network agents, communicating through the user's preferred method.

†II. To divide in two.

5. transitive. To divide into two equal parts. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > divide in two [verb (transitive)] > divide into two equal parts

halvea1300

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1543 R. Record Ground of Artes i. sig. K.v^v Yf you wolde medyate, or diuide into 2 this summe.

1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. vi. 57 The Diameter that mediates the Arch of each Sector is the Meridian.

III. To moderate or be moderate.

†6. intransitive. To take a moderate position; to avoid extremes. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > absence of prejudice > be unbiased [verb (intransitive)] > be neutral

to stand neuter1548

to swim between two waters (occasionally also streams)1553

neutrize1609

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neutralize1642

(to stand or sit) on or upon the fence1830

1612 J. Webster White Divel i. i The law doth somtimes mediate, thinkes it good Not euer to steepe violent sinnes in blood.

7. transitive. To moderate, mitigate; to lessen, reduce.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > make less violent or severe [verb (transitive)]

temperc1000

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abate?c1335

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1987 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 52 185 The introduction of measures of routine activities outside the home should mediate the impact of the demographic correlates of victimization.

1988 F. A. Cotton & G. Wilkinson Adv. Inorg. Chem. (ed. 5) xi. 420 Tartar emetic..is used for treatment of schistosomiasis and leishmaniasis; the toxic side effects can be mediated by penicillamine.

1992 J. M. Bumsted Peoples of Canada x. 310 The post-war federal dominance of the Liberals as the party of government was mediated by a number of countervailing factors in Canadian politics.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	mediate
释义	mediateadj.n. Brit. /ˈmiːdɪət/, U.S. /ˈmidiət/ Forms: late Middle English 1600s mediat, late Middle English–1500s medyate, late Middle English– mediate; Scottish pre-1700 mediat, pre-1700 1900s– mediate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mediatus. Etymology: < post-classical Latin mediatus (late 4th cent.), past participle of mediare mediate v. Compare Anglo-Norman mediat (14th cent.) and Middle French, French médiat (1478).In phrase Lordis mediates and immediates (see quot. 1454 at sense 2b) after post-classical Latin domini mediati et immediati (from 1279 in British sources) or Anglo-Norman seigneurs mediatz & immediatz (14th cent.). 1. a. Intermediate; intervening or interposed in position, rank, quality, time, or order of succession. In later use frequently with between. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [adjective] middlea1200 mean1340 mediate?1440 intercedent1578 interjacent1594 intermedial1599 intermiddle1613 intervenient1626 intervalling1632 intermediate1646 intervening1646 mediatory1650 intercurrent1656 intermedious1678 intermediant1716 intercepting1826 mediant1853 intermediary1875 interferent1876 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > middle > [adjective] middleeOE midmosteOE mid1273 mean1340 middlemosta1400 mediate?1440 moyen1481 median1592 intermedial1599 intermediate1648 mede1706 intermediary1788 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. 647 (MED) In April figtreen inoculate; May best be ther as drie londis be, And ek in Iuyl ther lond is mediate. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 179 The membres inferialle supporte and do seruyce, the meane other membres mediate [of the body] receyve and refunde. 1547 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 78 The mediat air that is to succeid to the persoun that happynnis to deceis. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. viii. Ded. 29 I may wish you and yours less mediate trouble then he had in the course of his Life. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Suff. 59 After many mediate preferments..at last he became Arch-bishop of Canterbury. 1707 M. Prior Charity 49 But soon the mediate clouds shall be dispell'd. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1839) IV. 28 The understanding is in all respects a medial and mediate faculty, and has therefore two extremities or poles, the sensual..and the intellectual. 1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 169 The Marsh-eagles hold a sort of mediate station between the Ernes, the Ospreys, and the Buzzards. 1857–8 E. H. Sears Athanasia iii. ii. 262 There are three conditions after death, heaven and hell, and a state mediate between them. 1924 J. Riviere et al. tr. S. Freud Coll. Papers II. xxi. 250 The essay..describes the various allegiances the ego owes, its mediate position between the outer world and the id, and its struggles to serve all its masters at one and the same time. 1969 Amer. Lit. 41 286 Thoreau's search for a ‘middle way’ (a mediate way) between spirit and sense. 1987 19th-cent. Lit. 42 50 Wilfred [in Scott's Ivanhoe] does not simply assume a mediate position between Norman and Saxon cultures: he attempts to translate Saxon culture into Norman. †b. Serving as a means to an end. Also: conducive, serviceable. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [adjective] > instrumental instrumentala1398 mediate?1504 organic1509 ministerial?1544 instrumentaryc1595 organical1605 subservient1624 ministering1886 ?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) ii. xii. 195 He exorted his disciples..to take the crosse as the moost medyate meane to folowe hym. 1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. 634 The..supposition of a mediate and an ultimate religion. 1845 B. Thorpe tr. J. M. Lappenberg Hist. Eng. Introd. 53 A temple of Diana was mediate to the faith of so many people. †c. That is in mid-course. (In quot. 1852 used as n.) Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1852 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 474 Death divine alone can perfect both, The mediate and initiate. 2. Acting or related through an intermediate person or thing. Opposed to immediate. a. Dependent on or involving an intermediate person, thing, or action. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [adjective] > acting as intermediate agent meana1382 mediatec1449 moyen1470 mediatory1578 intermedial1649 intervenient1651 mediative1813 intermediary1818 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [adjective] > acting as intermediate agent > involving intermediate agency mediatec1449 refracted1655 the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > [adjective] > involving mediation > through accompanying mark mediate1897 mediation1953 c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 521 In ij..maners God dooth in erthe: Oon is of immediat doing..whanne he bi him silf..dooth the deede..An other maner is of mediat doing, and that is whanne he not bi him silf oonli, but bi his assignees dooth it, as bi an aungel or bi the sunne. 1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie (1870) 23 By mediat moyens. 1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 36 Either by Mediate apparance, and reuelation of some vision; or by Imediate..illumination from God. 1642 H. Ainsworth Orthodox Found. Relig. 18 Mediate creation is the making of things of some former matter. 1646 P. Bulkley Gospel-covenant iii. 231 This mediate witnesse of the spirit..is not to be harkened unto, untill the immediate witnesse hath spoken. 1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. iii. 145 Perception is either immediate or mediate... Mediate, as when we perceive how they [sc. ideas] are related to each by comparing them both to a third. 1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ i. 3 Although..the agreement in these writings be mediate and secondary. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. xii. 264 All truth is either mediate,..derived from some other truth..or immediate and original. 1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation v. 224 The principle of mediate election is not commonly practised in this country. 1897 C. H. Judd tr. W. M. Wundt Outl. Psychol. iii. 239 ‘Mediate recognition’..consists in the recognition of an object, not through its own attributes, but through some accompanying mark or other. 1958 B. Bernstein in Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 9 164 The role of gesture, facial expression, bodily movement, in particular volume and tone of the speaking voice, will be termed ‘immediate’ or direct expression, whilst the words used will be termed ‘mediate’ or indirect expression. 1992 Mind 101 48 It might be wondered whether an alternative possibility in this case is to take the mediate partial notion of constituency as primitive, just as in the linear case. b. Feudal Law. Of a feudal lord or of a tenant or vassal: related through a mesne lord or intermediary. Of a feudal relationship between lord and tenant: effected through an intermediary, as in mediate holding, mediate sovereignty, mediate tenure. Also figurative. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [adjective] > direct or intermediate mediate1454 immediate1543 1454 Rolls of Parl. V. 274/2 To paye..their rentes..to their Lordis mediates and immediates. 1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys ii. f. xxxix^v The kyng or eny other lord medyate or immedyate that [etc.]. 1611 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdoms World (new ed.) 215 As touching his mediate [1630 immediate] Soueraignety. 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 229 To be free from either a mediat, or immediat Tenure of him. 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. v. 480 Those which had depended upon mediate lords became immediately connected with the empire. 1839 E. A. Poe Island of Fay in Wks. (1864) I. 361 [A planet] whose mediate sovereign is the sun. 1841 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. I. 173 The holding might also be mediate, that is, in the way of subinfeudation. 1843 T. Lewis Disc. True Idea of State 31 This ultimate or absolute sovereignty..in distinction from that acting or mediate sovereignty which is lodged with the present rulers. 1961 Speculum 36 263 Mediate lords might make their own summons to the general court the occasion for taxing their peasants. †c. Preceding or following another person not directly but with a third party, generation, etc., coming in between. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 36 Stephen Langton, his [sc. Becket's] mediate successor, removed his body [etc.]. 1718 in R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 370 Our sponsors are what I cannot away with, when parents, mediate or immediate, can be had. †d. Law. Of evidence: directed to the establishment of an intermediate fact which is to serve as a ground of argument for the fact to be proved. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 413/2 Mediate testimony, secondary evidence. †3. Intercessory; intervening on behalf of another; acting as an agent for another. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [adjective] > acting as intermediate agent > specifically of person mediate1571–2 middling1631 intermediating1694 mesne1812 intermediate1855 a1456 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 24 (MED) O þou blest virgyne..Beo redy, aye bytwene god and man fful medyate, with þy prayer. c1475 in F. J. Furnivall Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 140 Lord, to my mornyng be mediate. 1520 in W. Fraser Chiefs of Grant (1883) III. 65 Neuir ane of thame sal heir scayth..to vderis..bot thai sal raveil to vderis be thair selfis or be vder mediat personis. 1571–2 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 121 Na maner of persoun..sall pay or procure to be payit of thair awin substance or be mediat personis. c1600 Hist. & Life James VI (1825) 186 When the Erle persavit himself to be so far disgracit, he travellit be mediat persons to mak satisfactioun. 1604 C. Edmondes Observ. Cæsars Comm. II. vii. viii. 63 These [sc. the Tribunes and Centurions] were mediate officers betweene the Generall and them [sc. the soldiers]. 1655 in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. (1896) 30 18 The saids goods ar to be put in a mediate man's hands, who sall be answerable for them. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 193 in Justice Vindicated It will not follow that the Bishop is the Kings mediate officer in all things and cases which relate to his Episcopal function and jurisdiction. 1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. i. 216 The mediat sellers of goods belonging to thieves or inobedient persons..are only punishable by banishment. Compounds mediate association n. Psychology indirect linking (of ideas, etc.) through unconscious or unnoticed intermediaries. ΚΠ 1893 Mind 2 234 Wundt..accepted the term ‘mediate association’, and..was careful to point out that the so-called ‘unconscious’ ideas must always be ‘darkly conscious’; so that there is nothing in the process to separate it off from the ordinary types of association. 1912 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. Jan. 106 The cases of true mediate association found in these experiments. 1932 Jrnl. Philos. 29 216 A tree and a stream are often associated because they are parts of the same country-side. On this basis, all association by contiguity is mediate.] mediate auscultation n. [after French auscultation médiate (R. T. H. Laennec De l'Auscultation Médiate (1819))] Medicine (now chiefly historical) auscultation performed with a stethoscope (as opposed to direct application of the physician's ear to the body). ΚΠ 1821 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest ii. 287 Some of the indications afforded by the stethoscope, or mediate auscultation, are very easily acquired. 1893 S. J. Gee Auscult. & Percuss. (ed. 4) 92 Let mediate auscultation ever be considered the rule of practice. 1981 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 70 275 On the occasion of the bicentennial of the birth of the discoverer of mediate auscultation [sc. Laennec], we celebrate the life and work of one of the founders of modern medicine. mediate cause n. a cause which operates not directly but by means of an intermediate agency; a cause which underlies or gives rise to other (more apparent) causes; cf. final cause at cause n. 4b. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [adjective] > of or relating to types of cause > remote or not immediate remote1563 mediate cause1626 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §400 The Immediate Cause of Death, is the Resolution or Extinguishment of the Spirits; And..the Destruction or Corruption of the Organs is but the Mediate Cause. 1748 D. Hume Philos. Ess. Human Understanding viii. 162 Nor is it possible to explain distinctly, how the Deity can be the mediate Cause of all the Actions of Men. 1835 R. Mant Brit. Months II. x. 395 He flew, To note, as rul'd by certain laws, But leave untold the mediate cause. 1992 Nous 26 475 When we perceive [the woman's act of kindness] we form an idea of the woman's kindness... This idea is the mediate cause of the moral sentiment. mediate inference n. Logic inference based on more than one premise and therefore involving a middle term; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [noun] > inference syllogism1588 subalternation1650 immediacya1834 immediate inference1843 mediate inference1849 1849 W. Thomson Outl. Laws of Thought (ed. 2) §51. 201 This is mediate inference. 1994 Philos. Perspectives 8 94 Every mediate inference pivots on a middle term of some kind, on the ability to recognize that two thought tokens share a content. mediate knowledge n. Philosophy knowledge which is not the direct result of intuition or perception, but is obtained by means of inference or testimony. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > [noun] > obtained by inference mid knowledge1640 mediate knowledgea1856 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [noun] > cognition > mediate cognition mid knowledge1640 mediate knowledgea1856 a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) I. xii. 218 What is called mediate knowledge. 1880 Mind 5 477 The properties of the molecule of water are even less intelligible to us than the properties of the living molecule. Of the former we possess only a mediate knowledge. 1986 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 46 580 Husserl's initial criticism of Humean skepticism is that it denies the noetic conditions for any theory by destroying the possibility of rational justification of mediate knowledge. mediate percussion n. (occasionally also médiate percussion) [after French percussion médiate (P. A. Piorry De la Percussion Médiate (1828))] Medicine (now chiefly historical) percussion performed upon a solid object (originally a pleximeter, now usually a finger of the physician's other hand) placed against the body. ΚΠ 1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. I. 219/1 Mediate percussion was only introduced into practice a few years since, by M. Piorry. 1843 T. Watson Lect. Physic II. xlvii. 10 In mediate percussion, some solid substance is placed upon the spot, the resonance of which is about to be explored, and the blow is made upon that substance, which is called a pleximeter. 1891 F. Taylor Man. Pract. Med. (ed. 2) 345 An advantage of using the finger as the pleximeter in mediate percussion, is that the vibrations of the chest can be felt at the same time that the sound is heard. 1979 Thorax 34 575/1 Pierre Adolphe Piorry.., whose controversial method of médiate percussion helped to sharpen the diagnostic skills of clinicians. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mediatev. Brit. /ˈmiːdɪeɪt/, U.S. /ˈmidiˌeɪt/ Forms: 1500s mediat, 1500s– mediate, 1600s medyate, 1600s midiate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin mediat-, mediare. Etymology: < post-classical Latin mediat-, past participial stem (compare -ate suffix³) of mediare to be in the middle (Vetus Latina), to intercede, act as an intermediary (5th cent.), to halve (late 4th cent.) < classical Latin medius (see medium n.); in English use probably after mediation n. or mediator n. Compare Old French, Middle French medier to halve (13th cent.), to negotiate, act as intermediary (1471). Compare slightly earlier premediate v. With sense 5 compare earlier medie v. In sense 7 perhaps confused with mitigate v. I. To act or bring about as an intermediary or mediator. 1. †a. transitive. To act as a mediator or intermediary with (a person), for the purpose of bringing about agreement or reconciliation; to intercede with. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > bring to peace (strife or discord) [verb (transitive)] > mediate between to go between ——lOE mean1440 mediate1538 to build bridges1886 1538 Ld. Sandys Let. 16 Apr. in Lisle Papers (P.R.O.: SP 3/7/87) f. 116 I am desirid to mediat your lordshipp for a pore seruante of the kinges. b. intransitive. Of a person or other agency: to act as a mediator or intermediary; to intercede or intervene. In later use chiefly with between. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > intercession or influence on someone's behalf > intercede or use influence on someone's behalf [verb (intransitive)] ernde1225 bemean1464 intercess1556 intercession1593 intercessionate1593 intercede1606 interposea1616 mediate1616 superexpostulate1647 society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > become at peace with each other [verb (intransitive)] > mediate stightlec1440 stickle1530 moderate1597 mediate1616 to step in1657 interpose1710 mediatize1885 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Mediate, to deale betweene two, to make meanes of agreement, as an indifferent party to both. 1618 Earl of Suffolk in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 75 I must fly to you as to my pryncipall advocate to medyate to his Majestie for my coming to hys presence. c1620 W. Camden Let. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 124 Yff you will mediate with my L. Burghley for the Loane of Chrisostomes Greeke Copie. 1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) i. ii. 58 Interpreters to mediate between the people and the Governour. 1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 24 Dec. (1948) II. 588 I have been..mediating between the Hamilton family & Ld Abercorn, to have them compound with him. 1837 T. B. Macaulay Ld. Bacon in Ess. (1899) 363 Bacon attempted to mediate between his friend [sc. the Earl of Essex] and the Queen. 1861 M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 412 In vain Cabinets endeavoured to mediate. 1892 M. Dods Gospel St. John II. xiv. 209 He [sc. the Holy Spirit] was to mediate and maintain communication between the absent Lord and themselves. 1962 L. Namier Crossroads of Power vii. 91 As for the King's advisers, he considered it their task to mediate between the King and Parliament. 1986 G. Josipovici Contre-Jour ii. 104 If you had existed you could have mediated between us. 2. a. transitive. To settle (a dispute) by mediation. Also: †to mitigate (an evil, suffering, etc.) as by mediation (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > bring to peace (strife or discord) [verb (transitive)] > settle (a dispute) > by mediation mediatea1627 1568 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Dial Princes (rev. ed.) iv. 99 The miseries wee suffer..haue for the most part proceeded from our parents, and afterwards by our frends haue been mediated and redressed. 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 27 Shoring our weaknesse, arming vs 'gainst fate, Guiding our path-lesse passage, brething life Into our dulnesse: midiating strife. a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) ii. sig. D2^v No friends Could mediate their discords. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxii. 222 His companions indulged in a family conflict..which was only mediated, after much effort. 1968 P. Calvocoressi World Politics since 1945 iv. xiii. 256 Neutralism and non-alignment..entailed,..attempts to mediate and abate the dangerous quarrels of the great. 1991 Sporting News 12 Aug. 38/1 NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, a lawyer, tried to mediate the dispute. †b. transitive. To intercede on behalf of (a cause or situation). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > intercession or influence on someone's behalf > intercede or use influence for [verb (transitive)] entreata1425 mediate1578 to put ina1616 to speak up1705 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man sig. Aiiij^v Before you take any occasion to accuse me of temeritie, whiche crime I had worthely incurred if zeale should not mediate my cause. a1625 J. Fletcher Pilgrim i. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ggggg/2 In your prayers..mediate my poor fortunes. a1640 P. Massinger Bashful Lover iv. 58 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) Had you been Imploy'd to mediate your Fathers cause, My drum had been unbrac'd, my trumpet hung up. c. transitive. To bring about or obtain (an agreement, treaty, etc.) by acting as mediator; to bring about by intercession. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > intercession or influence on someone's behalf > intercede or use influence for [verb (transitive)] > bring about by mediation mean1440 mediatea1593 society > armed hostility > peace > pacification > peace treaty > [verb (transitive)] > effect by mediation mediatea1593 society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > bring to peace (strife or discord) [verb (transitive)] > mediate between > effect by mediation mediatea1593 a1593 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta (1633) v. iv Let me go to Turkey, In person there to mediate your peace. 1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 139 To mediate with the King a suspension of armes. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 79 Beseeching him to use his power, in mediating licence unto him, that he might come over for a short time to kisse the Queenes hand. 1718 Free-thinker No. 15. 1 The Friends on Both Sides thought, They might mediate a Peace with as much Ease as a Truce. 1754 D. Hume Hist. Eng. vi. 142 Anselm..mediated an accommodation between them. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella III. ii. xiii. 104 It is singular that the last act of his political life should have been to mediate a peace between the dominions of two monarchs, who had united to strip him of his own. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 552/1 The utmost the king could do was..to mediate a truce between his father-in-law and himself. 1989 Daily News (Nairobi) 3 Aug. 2/4 The two African leaders had told the SPLA they would try to mediate an end to Sudan's six-year-old civil war. 3. a. transitive. To be the intermediary or medium concerned in bringing about (a result) or conveying (a message, gift, etc.). In passive: to be communicated, imparted, or carried out mediately. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > find means to do something [verb (intransitive)] > act as intermediate means to go betweenc1320 to come between ——?1492 intercede1578 factor1621 intermediate1624 trample1624 mediate1630 intervene1646 to come in between ——1676 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > render instrumental [verb (transitive)] > be intermediate means in mean1440 mediate1630 refract1700 middleman1976 1630 H. Lord Display Two Forraigne Sects Introd. Who, to give this undertaking [sc. a book] the better promotion, interested himselfe in the worke, by mediating my acquaintance with the Bramanes. 1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxv. 227 An immediate working of God..without conuenient and ordinary instruments to mediate and effect this configuration. 1846 G. S. Faber Lett. Tractarian Secession Popery 224 Moses..mediated an inferior covenant between God and the Israelites. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics II. viii. vi. 58 Ten years after the first manifestation he believed himself the recipient of a second, not, like the former, mediated by anything external. 1861 G. J. Goschen Theory Foreign Exchanges 18 A country which, like England, mediates the transactions of many others. 1903 J. Conn Fulness of Time vi. 77 Everything we know of Him who is the Light of the World has been mediated to us through men. 1974 Author Summer 89/2 People wanted direct, authentic communication that had not been mediated by sub~editors or script writers. The tape recorder made this new authenticity possible. 1991 W. Cash Against Federal Europe 62 By this development, the representation and participation of the citizens was increasingly weakened and ‘mediated’. b. transitive. Psychology. Of a mental process, cognitive activity, etc.: to react to a stimulus so as to bring about (a response). Usually in passive with by. Cf. mediation n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > [verb] > act as mediator mediate1899 1899 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 11 7 He found that recollection could be mediated..(1) through visual images, (a) successive in time and space, or (b) grouped..plus motor memory. 1942 Psychol. Rev. 49 522 Behavioral generalization in children was found to be mediated by verbal responses. 1957 B. F. Skinner in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 67/2 Instead of going to a drinking fountain, a thirsty man may simply ‘ask for a glass of water’... The consequences of such behavior are mediated by a train of events no less physical or inevitable than direct mechanical action. 1972 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 87 129 Of particular interest to the present investigators was the extraction of the dimensions actually used by individuals in mediating similarity. 1994 Daily Tel. 22 Dec. 16/6 Is the hypomania-related emotional Stroop effect mediated by anxiety? c. transitive. Science. To be the medium for, or means of bringing about (a force, reaction, etc.). Frequently in passive with by. ΚΠ 1959 T. Lidz in S. Arieti Amer. Handbk. Psychiatry I. xxxii. 650/1 The hypothalamus..is now understood to form a critical juncture in a circular feedback system that mediates and regulates neural impulses concerned with emotions and neuro-endocrine activity. 1970 E. Heftmann Steroid Biochem. vii. 64 Animal tissues contain hydroxylases that mediate the introduction of oxygen into specific positions of steroids to produce α- or β-oriented hydroxyl groups. 1984 J. F. Lamb et al. Essent. Physiol. (ed. 2) ix. 233 It is now known that transmission across a number of synapses is mediated electrically. 1985 Nature 3 Jan. 9 Dr Carlo Rubbia..had been in Stockholm to collect his Nobel prize for discovering the W^± and Z⁰ particles, which mediate the weak nuclear force. 1993 Mycol. Res. 97 157 A host-specific recognition mechanism, termed eclosion, mediates the early establishment of Hypoxylon fragiforme (Ascomycotina) in its hosts. 4. a. intransitive. To lie or occupy the space between (formerly also †betwixt) two things, times, etc.; to be transitional between. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > be interjacent [verb (intransitive)] relate1490 intercede1578 interject1578 interpose1615 interval1630 interline1633 mediate1641 intervenec1709 intercalate1960 the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > condition of being mean or average > be the mean [verb (intransitive)] mediate1641 1641 R. Carpenter Experience, Hist., & Divinitie v. xix. 322 There mediates no reall tie betwixt you and me, but the worne and old tie of old Acquaintance. 1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. iii. 21 By theire being crowded together, they exclude all other bodies that before did mediate betweene the litle partes of theire maine body. 1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 72 Betweene the temptation of the Divell and sin there ever mediates, or goes betweene, cogitation, or thought, in which the temptation properly and formally lyes. 1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) II. 388 No twilight in the gateway To mediate 'twixt the two. 1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. xviii. 398 To mediate between the old and the new..is the mission of institutions like ours. 1872 E. Tuckerman Genera Lichenum 11 Evernia vulpina must be admitted to mediate,..in an important detail of thalline structure, between the other northern species and Usnea. 1902 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. II. 344/1 The term probabilism is also used to describe the theory which mediates between a sceptical view regarding knowledge, and the needs of practical life. b. intransitive. To function as an intermediary or link. Frequently with between. ΚΠ 1927 J. Riviere tr. S. Freud Ego & Id v. 83 The ego tries to mediate between the world and the id, to make the id comply with the world's demands and, by means of muscular activity, to accommodate the world to the id's desires. 1968 M. Bunge in I. Lakatos & A. Musgrave Probl. Philos. Sci. 128 [A] theory that takes the risk of hypothesizing something mediating between inputs and outputs. 1979 H. Segal Klein 19 The ego..mediates between the id and reality. 1990 G. Snyder Pract. of Wild vi. 129 The web that holds it all together is the mycelia, the fungus-threads that mediate between root-tips of plants and chemistry of soil, bringing nutrients in. 1995 Computer May 85/2 Interface agents mediate between the user and task or network agents, communicating through the user's preferred method. †II. To divide in two. 5. transitive. To divide into two equal parts. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > divide in two [verb (transitive)] > divide into two equal parts halvea1300 medie?c1425 mediate1543 midmeasure1578 dimidiate1623 bisect1646 halfen1677 middle1703 hemisect1885 medisect1886 1543 R. Record Ground of Artes i. sig. K.v^v Yf you wolde medyate, or diuide into 2 this summe. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. vi. 57 The Diameter that mediates the Arch of each Sector is the Meridian. III. To moderate or be moderate. †6. intransitive. To take a moderate position; to avoid extremes. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > absence of prejudice > be unbiased [verb (intransitive)] > be neutral to stand neuter1548 to swim between two waters (occasionally also streams)1553 neutrize1609 mediate1612 neutralize1642 (to stand or sit) on or upon the fence1830 1612 J. Webster White Divel i. i The law doth somtimes mediate, thinkes it good Not euer to steepe violent sinnes in blood. 7. transitive. To moderate, mitigate; to lessen, reduce. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > make less violent or severe [verb (transitive)] temperc1000 keelc1175 slakea1300 abate?c1335 settle1338 swagea1340 modifyc1385 rebatea1398 bate1398 moder1414 releasea1425 remiss?a1425 moderate1435 alethe?1440 delaya1450 appal1470 addulce1477 mollify1496 mean?a1513 relent1535 qualify1536 temperatea1540 aplake1578 slack1589 relaxate1598 milden1603 mitigate1611 relax1612 alleniate1615 allay1628 alloy1634 castigate1653 smoothen1655 tendera1656 mitify1656 meeken1662 remitigate1671 obviscate1684 slacken1685 chastise1704 dulcify1744 absorb1791 demulceate1817 chasten1856 modulate1974 mediate1987 1987 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 52 185 The introduction of measures of routine activities outside the home should mediate the impact of the demographic correlates of victimization. 1988 F. A. Cotton & G. Wilkinson Adv. Inorg. Chem. (ed. 5) xi. 420 Tartar emetic..is used for treatment of schistosomiasis and leishmaniasis; the toxic side effects can be mediated by penicillamine. 1992 J. M. Bumsted Peoples of Canada x. 310 The post-war federal dominance of the Liberals as the party of government was mediated by a number of countervailing factors in Canadian politics. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.?1440v.1538
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